I just bought the DVD collection....my kids LOVE this cartoon...They were laughing their asses off when Popeye just randomly kicks everyones ass in the early episodes!I grew up with this great stuff along with the Stooges and there isn't ONE violent bone in my body!!! I believe MOST children know the difference between what is REAL and what is Cartoon! They're smarter than the Studio executives realize!Loved your commentary on these DVD's...wish there were more! What the hell was Kali laughing about?

bimbo's initiation is one of my all time favorite cartoons. it seems like every background element is able to eat something!?

and in these popeyes it seems like they decided "hey we can do more than just made this baby turn into a horrifying monkey!" or "make this keyhole eat this key!" and started morphing things for emphasis.

Gags like the ones on Popeye were great visuals for showing pain and discomfort by a character. When Popeye eats his spinach and flexes his biceps, there is always a visual of power. A power plant, an engine, an atomic bomb exploding....etc, etc. Hey John, are you going to post more animation lectures like your previous one?

I read that yourself,Uncle Eddie and Kali are doing some commentaries for the next Warners DVD on the Bob Clampett disc-whats it like? Are the colors changed,DVNRed lines etc like previous disks? (bright yellow milk in Baby Bottleneck-yucky)

This new Popeye DVD is the class act of the year, far surpassing anything Warner Home Video has released in the past several seasons. I hope they continue until every single Fleischer and Famous Popeye short is restored and on DVD. And the heavy's proper name is Bluto, not Brutus. That was a change forced on the cheap batch of Popeye cartoons in 1960 by Disney lawyers who felt the name "Bluto" was too close to their "Pluto", despite the fact that Bluto predated their sorry mutt.

I love all the fun sight gags they used in these old cartoons!Popeyes one of the best!Tex Avery was a genuis at them.The "elephant gun" sequence in "Field and Scream" cracks me up no matter how many times I see it. To bad they dont make them like this anymore

I don't think the temporary name change from Bluto to Brutus had anything to do with Disney or Pluto. When King Features made the crappy 60-61 Popeye cartoons, they were under the impression that Paramount Pictures owned the rights to the Bluto name, so they changed it to Brutus. But they were actually wrong.